Improved Convert to Black & White tool in Develop and Edit mode: can increase or decrease the contrast of each individual color, and specify the brightness range that the contrast adjustment will target

Import and apply Color LUTs in Edit mode

Support for HEIF: decodes this high efficiency media container format for images and image sequences

Auto Advance: adding metadata prompts ACDSee to automatically advance to the next image

Luminosity Selection: creates selections based on the brightness in images

Customizable keyboard shortcuts in Manage mode

Copy and paste masks

Improvements

Improved Curve control

Added Process drop-down menu in Manage mode

Increased the number of cells in Quick Categories and Keywords table

Doubled the Exposure range in Develop mode

Doubled the Highlight Enhancement range

Improved brush panel workflow in Develop mode

Added Smart Erase to Repair tool in Edit mode

Added an extra brush in Develop mode

Added Adjustments tab in Print dialog

Added AutoSave in Edit mode options

Added option to resize by percentage in Batch Export

Added support for underscore as separator in Import dialog

Added ability to undo/redo individual sliders in Develop mode

Known Issues

Actions Browser can only be invoked in one instance of ACDSee Manage mode.

Drag and drop from mobile device to Windows Explorer does not work but dragging and dropping from mobile device within ACDSee is supported.

In some cases, on Windows 7 and 8, when camera is connected to computer via USB cable, Import tool may fail to display media files and will not copy them. In these cases, we recommend copying items from these devices to your computer with Windows Explorer, or import media through card reader.

ACDSee uses the base layer's color profile for any additional layers.

.acdc format is not supported in Develop mode.

In ACDSee Layered Editor, when using Move tool, you cannot add masks.

Text/Watermark shows incorrect preview in certain scenarios.

Color images turn to black and white when added as layers on grayscale images.

It is recommended that you restart ACDSee after importing a Lightroom database.

Supported

ACDSee Actions created in ACDSee Ultimate 2018 and Professional 2018 are supported in ACDSee Ultimate 2019 and Professional 2019.

ACDSee Actions created in Ultimate 2019 and Professional 2019 are backwards compatible with ACDSee Ultimate 2018 and Professional 2018, as long as the features used were in ACDSee Ultimate 2018 and Professional 2018